zhouhao27/create-express

A cli for Node server with Express and TypeScript

Create Express

A cli to create a very simple Node server with Express and TypeScript

Installation

npm i -g @zhouhao27@create-express

Usage

  create-express <project-name> [options]
    
  options:
  -h, --help Help
  -v, --version Show version

Steps to create an Node server with Express and TypeScript

1. Add .gitignore
2. README.md
3. Create project

yarn init -y

4. Add modules and add types

yarn add express 

ts-node-dev is similar to nodemon but it's working for TypeScript.

yarn add -D typescript @types/express ts-node-dev tsc

5. Create tsconfig.json
6. Add scripts in package.json

"scripts": {
  "ts-node-dev --respawn --transpileOnly ./src/server.ts"
}

References

TypeScript Express tutorial

How (and why) you should use Typescript with Node and Express.